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4 | July 18, 2019 | The highland park landmark news
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Highland Park dispensary prepares for cannabis legalization
Erin Yarnall, Editor
When the staff at
Elevele, Highland Park’s
sole cannabis dispensary,
heard the news that Gov.
J.B. Pritzker signed a bill
legalizing cannabis in
the state of Illinois, they
were excited, according to
Elevele General Manager
Paul Nowacki.
“Everyone that works
here has been really excited
because we've all
been waiting for this,”
Nowacki said. “There’s
been such a stigma about
cannabis.”
He hopes that with the
passing of this legislation,
that stigma will begin to
shift.
But the transition to legalized
marijuana won’t
happen overnight. The
bill will become effective
Jan. 1, 2020. In the meantime,
Elevele is starting to
prepare for the changes
that will happen to the
cannabis industry once it
becomes legalized in the
state.
Dispensaries in the state
that have already been
selling medical marijuana
will need to apply for a license
to begin recreational
marijuana sales.
“What’s nice is it works
very similar to how a lot
of other states did it in
that the companies who
have already had medical
licenses get first dibs at
the recreational licenses,”
Nowacki said.
According to Nowacki,
the state will also be
opening up licenses for
craft cannabis growers
“Everyone that works here has
been really excited because
we’ve all been waiting for this.”
Paul Nowacki, General Manager at
Elevele on the legalization of cannabis
— which he compares to
brewers who make craft
beers.
“Craft grows are going
to be much, much
smaller,” Nowacki said.
“They’re going to produce
fewer products, but
of higher quality.”
Elevele does not grow
its own products, it instead
purchases them from
cultivation centers located
throughout rural Illinois,
according to Nowacki.
The dispensary will
continue to provide medical
marijuana, and although
anyone over the
age of 21 will be able to
purchase marijuana products,
medical card holders
will receive benefits —
including lower taxes on
products.
“Medical cannabis patients
will only continue
to be taxed what we’re
currently taxing them,”
Nowacki said. “For instance,
we tax one percent.
Moving forward,
those taxes will remain
the same.”
While those without a
medical card will be taxed
at much higher rates.
Medical patients are
also allowed to grow up to
five plants in their homes,
and recreational users do
not have this ability.
“On the recreational
side, there’s going to
be more restrictions on
the amount of product
you’re allowed to have,”
Nowacki said.
If anyone from out
of state pays a visit to
Elevele in 2020, they will
be allowed half of the
amount that Illinois residents
can purchase.
The dispensary has
been providing clients
with cannabis products for
more than three years, after
being opened by Lake
Forest residents Andy and
Veronica Hunt.
After three years of servicing
medical patients,
the staff at Elevele are
excited to take on new clientele
who are interested
in purchasing recreational
products.
“I’ve been involved in
the industry for probably
around eight years now.
I grew up in Illinois, so
to be involved in something
that’s portrayed or
comes across as fully illegal
and there’s all this
negative stuff that comes
along with it — I think
that’s the biggest thing,”
Nowacki said. “It’s just
like a big sigh of relief for
people.”
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